fêtant
\fe.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“fêtant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,860 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,860
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de fêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fetant · fêtant · French
fêtant · rank #69,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,860
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fèces
Nearest frequency peer: fèces (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fêtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frisée
frisée
30,147 corpus weight
- frugalité
frugalité
30,145 corpus weight
- fréquentabl…
fréquentables
30,144 corpus weight
- fèces
fèces
30,142 corpus weight
- fêtant
fêtant
30,141 corpus weight
- gast
gast
30,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fêtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fêtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fe.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fêtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fêtant is uncommon French at frequency #69,860 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fe.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de fêter.".
fêtant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fêtant, spelled F-Ê-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de fêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fêtant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La liturgie que le protestantisme eut le tort de « prosaïquer » y connaîtra une reviviscence inimaginable sous la forme d’une englobante « sociurgie » : une société se fêtant et se célébrant elle-même non pas dans un culte de possession, mais le culte de sa prise de possession.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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